Counting one's blessings
Subtitle: the selected letters of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother
By: edited and with a preface by William Shawcross
Contributors: Shawcross, William
Edition: 1st American ed.
Publisher: Farrar Straus and Giroux
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 666
ISBN-13: 9780374185220
Subjects: Correspondence; Sources; History; Monarchy; Biography; Queens
Description: William Shawcross's official biography of Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, published in September 2009, was a huge critical and commercial success. One of the great revelations of the book was Queen Elizabeth's insightful, witty private correspondence. Indeed, The Sunday Times described her letters as "wonderful ... brimful of liveliness and irreverence, steeliness and sweetness." Now, Shawcross has put together a selection of her letters, drawing on the vast wealth of material in the Royal Archives and at Glamis Castle. Queen Elizabeth was a prolific correspondent from her earliest childhood before the First World War to the very end of her long life at the beginning of the twenty-first century, and her letters offer readers a vivid insight into the real person behind the public face.--From publisher description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 629-646) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. 1. Elizabeth; title: pt. 2. Duchess of York; title: pt. 3. Queen; title: pt. 4. Queen Mother.